RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2) /ext/date php_date.c php_date.h)
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:36:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2) /ext/date php_date.c php_date.h) | ||
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I agree completely. Can't we just call the damn thing DateTime stick it into
RC1 of PHP 5.2, and move on?
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:25 PM
> To: John Coggeshall
> Cc: Andrei Zmievski; Steph Fox; Greg Beaver; Andi Gutmans;
> 'Derick Rethans'; 'Edin Kadribasic'; 'Dmitry Stogov';
> internals@lists.php.net; 'Ilia Alshanetsky'
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS]
> cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2) /ext/date php_date.c php_date.h)
>
>
> Sure, but let's get some perspective as well here. We are
> talking about
> 1 class here with a naming problem that needs to bridge the
> gap between 5.x and 6.x at this point. We are not going to
> be adding dozens of new internal classes before 6. We may
> very well be able to just call it DateTime and be done with
> it. Calling it Date will mess up existing installs since it
> would force them to upgrade PEAR which we know will be a
> hurdle for many and I don't really think DateTime is in any
> way a worse name than Date since the code does way more than
> just handle dates.
>
> -Rasmus
>